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  1. story wise the patron thing would be easy to get around. Just say go to a contact rebel side and have them say " hey we just stole some tech from "insert patron name". If you do some stuff for me i can give you access to them.".

    And ya it would take forever and a day to get the content needed to make it worth while. But with the new mission maker UI they should/might be able to streamline mission production now. Never said it would be easy, but if they put the timei nto it i think it could be done. That said idk if it would add anything to the game.

    For me i don't think i would bother with it because it would split the player base even more. Because u couldn't have people who work for one over the other teaming doing the content. It just wouldn't make sense. Hero side maybe but def not villain side. MY OP was just a suggestion on how it could be done. But i think it would add too little re-playability for the amount of work needed to implement. And as some one who has pretty much lost all interest in coh since i14:Farmers delight i mean AE Edition i think they need to add some thing's that add replayability asap.
  2. crusader8466

    A movie

    This wiki article says the movie is already in pre-production. If it's true or not that's up to you to decide. Personally i hope it is because i have grown to love the coh universe and would kill to see a movie of it made. How well it would do thought idk. But as the devs have been saying the company does seem to have put a lot of emphasis behind the COH brand lately so anything is possible.
  3. If done right I think it could be a good addition to a future issue. Just about every group in COX has some other group they fight with. But it would tend to villain side better then Hero side because of the nature of villainy imo.
    But perhaps a global type rep system, for example playing as a hero;

    At lvl 1 you get to pick from 1 of say 2 different contacts. A Freedom Corps contact, or a vanguard contact, or some other such major faction hero side (legacy, wyvern, hero corps etc.). And have an over arcing story based on what faction you pick at the start of your character, like the Heat's/Veat's have.

    Depending on which side you choose have some obvious pros and cons. Say if you went vanguard then you can earn random vanguard merit drops when fighting other things then rikti, or a few merits at the end of every mission you do for them. As well you can have a certain number of unique costume options based on what side you choose that will only be available to you based on what side you pick. That way when people see that you have the giant "x" hat then they can see that you helped side "X". Perhaps have your choice culminate in a Taskforce, that depending on which side you picked, it ends with you fighting big boss "x" over big boss "y".

    Also depending on which side you choose perhaps have different villain groups “hate” you more so then others. So if I choose vanguard then the Rikti would have more of a hatred towards me then say if I picked Freedom corps and would have Arachnos hate me more. Even more so you could have within each faction, a chance to concentrate on sub factions within. For example maybe you choose to fight only the rikti as a member of vanguard and only them, or perhaps you *spoiler* want to help fight against the renegade vanguard faction*/endspoiler*, or some combination of the two.

    The same thing can be done villain side. Let the player choose to work with Arachnos, or to try and take over/destroy Arachnos. Or conversely if they don’t want to have anything to do with the faction system they can just ignore both of the new contacts and just do missions as they normally would.

    But that’s just off the top of my head lol
  4. All the devs are going to line up in AP and all at one time turn around and moon us. Promptly followed by delicious cheese cake ,in the shape of a moon, and juice. And as we are all standing around with mouths on the ground and delicious cheese cake cake in said mouths, the the top of the atlas globe will open. Then a giant rocket will pop out of the top, and we will all go to the moon to fight the 5th. Because we all know they have a moon base.
  5. Added the hood/cape to this char of mine and fell in love all over again

    Pic
  6. *sniff sniff*

    don't go LH! I CAN CHANGE! I SWEAR IT! it's cuss i smell bad isn't it! I'm sorry! i will buy more deodorant!

    have fun lh where ever u go. and thanks for your work over the years.
  7. all i know is i have used the v boards. and i don't like them. they always look to generic. and personally i just don't like how they format it. I can never seem to find what i'm looking for when i want it.
  8. *angry face*

    i like me boards as they are! humph! me no likey da changey thing. me like me stick and rock. me gonna use forever!

    idk. i don't see anything the new one does over this. but I'm not a real forum guy. so idk. but there was just something about the v bulletin i never liked. i cant place it tho....
  9. i still like my idea waaaay back on page 6 at the bottom but thats just me lol Seems like story wise it would be alot more interesting then the other stuff here. IMHo anyway lol but i'm weird so idk

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    Hero/villain TF/SF where you go back in time to all the major events where heroes had to sacrifice them selves to stop something. Mainly all the giant statues you see all over paragon. While you do this you must fight off a team of villains trying to stop you from saving the heros lives. But at the end of the TF you find out the contact who sent you on the TF is manipulating you into doing this so that he can destroy/take over the world. So you must then team up with the villains to take down this contact who would be a extra hard AV, or a group of 2-3 AV's.





    The villain would be the same missions . You fight to the same points. Only you fight this group of heroes instead of villains. And at the end you beat them and tell them whats going on, and they see what they have been doing wrong, and team up with you to take down that same guy/group to stop this from happening again.





    The main idea tho is to learn about the back stories for all those giant statues you see all over the place. But you eventually find out about this plot to take over Ouroboros too. So this could be the "Official" way to get the Ouroboros portal. i don't mean to take away how we can do it now. Just story wise. This could be how your "Supposed" to get into Ouroboros. So we can have a story for how we get into the Ouroboroszone, instead of just having the portal magically drop from the sky and now your in Ouroboros. lol Like the arc to get into the Midnight Squad zone. Instead of it just unlocking at a certain point.

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    Hmm... y'know, one bit of backstory I wouldn't mind seeing expanded on- the Freakshow, despite being a very popular villain group... we really don't know a whole lot about them. Where'd they come from? How'd they get their cybernetics?

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    Iirc (Warning: The following post contains spoilers. If you do not want to know, stop reading here.)...



    The Freakshow started up when Dreck (and his crew at the time) hit a stash of chemicals (Maybe Supradyne, but I think it was something else.. I want to say something Crey was playing with, but it may well be the Supradyne we've come to know and love), and did some 'sampling' of the merchandise. They found out that the chemicals gave them some pretty wicked-stupid endurance and durability - that they soon realized would let them modify their bodies with cybernetics far beyond what most people would be able to take.

    They dope up on the drugs, get their wetware mods, and then procede to have a bit of a party. They're, really, like your standard anti-establishment underground culture focused on rage and anger (possible side-effects of the drug may include...), that are a bit more militant in nature because of their advanced cybernetics that, when combined with their drug of choice, makes them a lot tougher then your standard street thugs (Dare I say... Superhumanly so?).

    They're up above most of the other street-punks because their cybernetics (combined with drug use and other violent practices) give them much easier access to the upper-tier of superhuman ability... which is why you see them so late in the game, and why they stay there through the whole run to 50.

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    wow. to be honest i never realy liked the freakshow for some reason. But that description made me think they were kinda cool lol. Thtas a interesting backstory imho gonna have to make a solo toon one of these days and actualy do story arcs so i can read this stuff. I always want to stop and read the stories. But unless you got team lead u cant. PLus if you do people start complaining about taking to long...
  11. Scroll to the bottom for the Cliff notes, if walls of text make you cry like a girly man /endarnold voice

    I would like to see the back stories of a bunch of the giant statues that are all over paragon. In the form of a TF/SF. Now my wall of..er i mean musings.


    i would like to see a mid range TF that has each mission be the story for each of the giant statues we see all over paragon. Most have some kinda story plaque around them i do believe. Have the arc be called "History of Fallen Heroes" and have it be from some contact thats obsessed with fallen heroes of paragon. Or if not all 2-3 of them.

    This is how i have it worked out in my crazy head.

    Hero side

    A contact in Talos would have the TF. It would be lvl 25-30 range. The story would be some thing like.

    "Greetings my name is "Mr.Time travely dude name here". and i am from what is known as Ouroboros. A place that is in time it self(note: or where ever it is. never paid much attention to the oro story. sorry hero1 lol). There are big problems in the future of this planet, and only you can help solve them. But before you can go and help with these problems, i need to make sure you know what kind of sacrifices that may be asked of you. So to make sure you understand the gravity of this endeavor i will have you see first hand what it takes to be a true hero of paragon. By learning from the greatest heroes paragon has ever seen.

    Thats not all. It gets worse. Much worse. You see, there is a group of villains out there that are trying to do everything they can to make sure these heroes die when they did. So be careful when your out there,because not only will you need to help the heroes with their original impossible missions, but you will need to do it and fight off these villains too."


    Villain

    A contact in Sharkhead would have the TF. It would be lvl 25-30 range. It would be the same as the hero one only from the villain point of view. Some thing like.

    "Greetings my name is "Mr.Time travely dude name here". I am from what is known as Ouroboros. I have come from the future to tell you of a great event that will one day engulf this planet, and destroy everything on it. That is unless someone with your amazing power could help us in the future. Now i know what you are thinking. Why should i care about this stuff. I will just beat the snot out of who ever try s this thing when the time comes, then go back to my plans. Trust me. this is bigger then any one person could possible imagine, and it will take the combined powers of ALOT of people to keep this from happening. Now. if you are still interested, before i can let you into Ouroboros you will need to past a test, to prove your abilities. There is a group of heroes that are traveling back in time, and are currently messing with major events. It would appear as tho they are going to all the major events of the past, where one of Paragons heroes had to sacrifice himself to stop something bad from happening. Now i understand why they would want to go back and save these people, but unfortunately we cant let this happen. As harsh as it may seem those heroes need to die. We have foreseen what happens if even one of these heroes doesn't die when they are supposed to, and the outcome isn't very pretty."


    Now to tie the two together. The last few missions on the hero one can be where you find out that the contact is actually manipulating the heroes and having them go back, and save all these heroes to make certain things happen. So that he can do some big master plan of his. Perhaps have it be something like, because these heroes don't die Mender Silos is never born and this guy some how takes over the orobus thingy and uses it for his own agenda, instead of saving the future earth like Mender wants to.

    So the villain arc turns out to be that you are actually fighting off this group of heroes who think they are trying to do the right thing. And the hero arc is them thinking you are just trying to be evil, when in fact the good guys are being bad and versa vice :grind: lol

    Now during these missions on the hero side, have it so you need to stop this group of villains from interfering. Have it set up so that You are following along the story as its supposed to be according to the plaques. But at some point have this group of viallins come out and start attacking you. You are too busy trying to hel the hero of the mission do his thing so you dont stop to ask why they are doing what they are doing till later on in the story arc.



    I would go into more detail, and re write this mess so it makes more sense. But I'm sure you get the general idea of it. but this wall of text is evil looking enough. and i doubt anyones gonna read it all any way lol but ya. thats my "i been up for two days and this just popped into my head so I'm trying to type it out b4 i forget" idea And if they dont do this. i will try to do something like it once the mission maker comes out when ever that does

    *Cliff Notes*
    Hero/villain TF/SF where you go back in time to all the major events where heroes had to sacrifice them selves to stop something. Mainly all the giant statues you see all over paragon. While you do this you must fight off a team of villains trying to stop you from saving the heros lives. But at the end of the TF you find out the contact who sent you on the TF is manipulating you into doing this so that he can destroy/take over the world. So you must then team up with the villains to take down this contact who would be a extra hard AV, or a group of 2-3 AV's.

    The villain would be the same missions . You fight to the same points. Only you fight this group of heroes instead of villains. And at the end you beat them and tell them whats going on, and they see what they have been doing wrong, and team up with you to take down that same guy/group to stop this from happening again.

    The main idea tho is to learn about the back stories for all those giant statues you see all over the place. But you eventually find out about this plot to take over Ouroboros too. So this could be the "Official" way to get the Ouroboros portal. i don't mean to take away how we can do it now. Just story wise. This could be how your "Supposed" to get into Ouroboros. So we can have a story for how we get into the Ouroboroszone, instead of just having the portal magically drop from the sky and now your in Ouroboros. lol
  12. hey all. I recently made This excel worksheet when coming up with an idea for a new power set idea and thought i would share it with you folks. Feel free to use it as a template if you like it. Or don't lol


    Here is the link to the excel template
    Here is the excel doc.

    I`m a bit of a n00b at excel so i wasn't sure which file type was needed or which one was most compatible with all versions of excel. So if some one reading this knows the best one let me know and i will upload that one as well.

    So let me know what yas think of it. And if theres any problems downloading the files. I just used the first free file hosting site Google came back with lol

    Edit:
    You can PM me too if you don't like posting on the site. I would really like to know what peps think of it. Any and all ideas and suggestion are appreciated.
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    Let's be honest here...when the new games come out, you're gonna check them out. You may in fact, even like them more and stop playing our beloved game to go play that game. Threatening us with something that's most likely inevitable anyway isn't really going to accomplish anything. We're going to continue doing what we think is best for this game, to the best of our abilities, and in whatever time it takes to accomplish all of that.

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    *thunderous round of applause"
    BaB's you are seriously an idol of mine. Every post of yours i read is ether funny as hell or just plain informative.You da Man lol. It's Because of DEV's like yourself and the commitment to this game that keeps me coming back. Sure theres a *HUGE* list of things about this game i can talk about that p's me off every time i log on, But none of it matters when i think of the 10's of thousands of hours, thousands of days, and many weeks i have enjoyed and played this game.

    As some one who has worked on makinga game b4 i understand how the pipeline of adding new content can be a pain. Sure i would love it if we could get 1 new issue every month or two. But i would rather get two new ones a year and be good top quality content, then 3-4 a year and just be random "look at this !!! its shiny!!! eh!... eh!... ahhh.... "

    Any who. Keep up the great work everyone at the studios. Because even if this games doesn't survive long past the new rush of Hero MMO's,*which i know it will. cuss the hero ALWAYS comes back when ya think hes down for the count.* i will always be able to look back at the amazing 4 years i had with this game. And i cant thank you guys enough for keeping this great game great, and allowing me a place to escape from my crappy life for a few hours a day. Best of luck.
  14. Wow. Silly me. And here i was looking forward to this big contest that was gonna be announced. Then i read the rules. Open only to Americans. Great. Typical. They should have mentioned earlier that it was only gonna be eligible for half of the coh players, And the other half get #$%^ed over like usual.
  15. heres a repost of my mm priamry i came up with a few months back. HERE
  16. crusader8466

    More CoH LOLcats

    lol's and cats. my two fav things in one. its like peanut butter cups!
  17. Heres one from my new Dom.

    Sexy Demon Girl

    i just love the look of the char and the background looks like a nice contrast imho.
  18. ok i just thought it would be interesting to see some of us post our best dam i look good/evil pics of our fav chars. Nothing to fancy just some poseing and nice backdrops to show off our goodlyness/evilyness. Below is my subimission.

    Supreme Arbiter Nick Freedom server lvl 50 crab spider
  19. oh and if any one finds any errors or has any suggestions for the checklist. let me know in this post. or PM me. its favorite'ed so i will know if anything gets added and i hope at least someone finds this useful. i know i am
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    Thanks for the file. I find items like this quite usefull.

    There are pleny of Freeware apps that will let you convert documents into the more universal PDF format. I'll be converting it to PDF for my own personal use.

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    i was gonna do pdf. but the point of it was to be able to edit it so u can check off what u dont need and my .pdf fu isnt very good, but i dont believe u can do that in pdf's.

    but i'm glad u guys like it. hope it comes in useful. ps. will update the post later on. after editing it 20 times and what not 10 sec after i got done posting it i opened it and noticed alot of the hyperlinks i wanted in there are gone so 2.0 should be up later tonight.

    edit: dam text got all messed up first time i submited it
  21. This file is a labor of love/necessity.I got tired of referring to paragon wiki all the time and just wanted it all in one place So I made this and figured i would share it with the community. The file lists all the accolades villains can get. and how to get them. It is a check list of all the accolades to keep track of what ones you still need. Below that is a checklist of each accolade,what badges you need to get them, how to get said badges, and what power each one gives you. So i hope you all find it useful and best of luck to everyone.

    Click HERE to download the file. Just wait a few seconds then click "click here to download". It is a .doc file made with Microsoft Word 2007. So if there is any problems with reading the file after you download it please post below. Best of luck to everyone and hope this helps.

    EDIT: Below is the updated versions of the villains Accolade list. AND the Just recently made Hero Accolade list. Enjoy

    Oh and by popular request i will have a pdf and .doc version. I personally use the .doc version so you can mark off what ones you have and save it. But if for some reason you cant get the .doc to work, you have an alternative.

    Hero .doc
    Hero .pdf

    Villain .doc
    Villain .pdf

    and as always. please post below if for some reason there is a problem downloading, or an error in the guide. Thnaks.
  22. sounds good to me. but what do i know
    oh and ps. fourm n00b here WTF is tl;dr
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    I remember the night I first "hovered"---at about 0.1mph no less. But...you'd have thought I broke through the dimensional barrier to a reality where such a feat was possible. I was so jazzed-energized, I literally hovered around...just snailing about in the air...for about an hour.

    I was a junky from that point forward.


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    Same here.

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    lol ditto 8)
  24. May 21, 2004

    I wish I could have been in this game from beta but alas I did not know the game even existed until after it was out for awhile. I will always remember the day I found out about it. I was in grade 12, standing around "cuss it was a slacker class it was 10 min of work, and 50 min of talking with friends " and a friend told me about this cool game he heard about. You played as this super hero and you ran around a huge city! You could fly, jump really high literally go ever where! It wasn’t just run around a flat world And after another 20-30 mins of describing how cool the game was, and a few weeks to bug my mom enough to buy it for me cuss I was broke I started playing city of heroes!

    And there I was. On my first computer I ever owned. I actually got it a few years b4 this because I played Command and conquer on my playstation and found out there were ALOT more on the pc and she was a beast of a computer too!” sarcasm there btw “ a 20 gb Hard drive, Pentium 3 proc. 2x 512mb of ram, a geforce 5200 128mb, and dial up.... man this game was laggy as hell. It took me 1 min 30 sec to load into most missions, longer on the bigger maps. But man o man did I love this game. lol I was such an altaholic it took me over a year b4 I even got a character past level 15

    My friends only lasted a month b4 they left for other MMO's and games, but I stayed. Sadly though I only have the 18 month vet reward and I’m 2 months off 21 atm. I didn’t always have the money to keep the game active, but I did my best. I still love the game even to this day. And with what I have seen/heard so far from the coming issues it looks like it’s only going to go up from here!

    So here’s to 4 more years and beyond! *swings mug of freshly poured ice cold Molson Canadian!*
  25. female model excess plus on top/bottom there is a visible break between the top and bottom in the front part on the chars skin. looks like some one forgot to merge the vertex points! or didn't make sure the textures flowed correctly together. tsk tsk tsk lolz 8)

    EDIT.
    my bad. i guess its just the break in the skin texture/model itself not the clothes texture. my bad. plz dont hurt me 8...(